IT SNOWED!

We heard that there might be snow, so while feeding the kids breakfast I turned on the TV.  Quickly, I rushed the kids to the set — LOOK, I said, it’s SNOWING not far from here!  Will was the most excited, “when will the snow be here?”

“Oh, Will, we live in New Orleans.  We don’t get snow here.”

I was wrong! Paul called home right between Will walking into his class and driving Kate to her building.  Heavy, heavy snow.  Kate asked for the phone and banged on her window, screaming “SNOW, MOMMY!  SNOW!”

And it stuck.  For a few hours, at least.  Paul took these pictures around 10am.

Here’s our little house.  Can you believe we still haven’t unstuck the shutter on the right?  I’m so embarrassed.

I’m also a little bummed we hadn’t put up any Christmas decorations yet.  Our house is ADORABLE dressed up for the holidays.  (The orange caution tape in front is to protect the hardie, which Paul is working to carry to the back — it is so heavy and unwieldy that he builds a special gig to hold the long boards for the trip to the backyard and can only bring 50 or so back per session.)

Here’s our street:

Holly in the snow…

Hmm, the azaleas were looking a little leggy anyway.

Poor pansies.  I have no idea if these are the winter variety.

Our little house.

Remember these?  It’s one of the three skylights Paul installed in the renovated area in the roof he built.  Check out that frozen snow on the glass — the sign of a darn good job insulating to keep the heat inside!

Around 11:30, we left to get our friend Carmen to take her to a nice lunch before she moves next week.  On the way, we stopped to get a quick picture of a little snowman on top of the streetcar sculpture at Audubon Park.  By the time we were done with lunch, everything had melted.

Here’s video of it coming down, taken by Paul this morning:


SNOW in New Orleans from Cold Spaghetti on Vimeo.

Now that the frozen variety are washed away, snow stories are flying around the city.  Is it true that a snow in New Orleans signals a bad hurricane to come the following spring?  Or is this just because the last snow, Christmas Day 2004, was the year before Katrina?   There are conflicting reports regarding the winter before Betsy.  Anyone have insight into this?